Summary: Bunch of post-war one shots.
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me.
Chapter 1: Nothing rejuvenates like a Quidditch game
"Good Morning Mrs. Weasley."
"Good Morning Harry dear. Did you sleep alright?"
"Yes I did , Thank you very much. did you?"
"Yes I did. Going for a fly, Harry?"
"Yes . Call me when breakfast is done."
The day started off as every day did since the war. Harry having nightmares, waking up early and blowing off the steam by flying on his firebolt as Mrs. Weasley watched on from the kitchen window while making the breakfast. Since the day they came back home from Hogwarts, the Weasley family hadn't spoken to each other and Harry was left alone to his thoughts.
Flying on his broom in the morning made him feel better and light as he thought of the past few days.
After the war, the funerals were to be planned. Teddy Lupin, just a month old baby was brought to his parents' funeral by his grandmother, . She looked tired out by all the nights she had been taking care of Teddy, thus Harry suggested that he take care of Teddy for half the week while she took care of him the rest of the week, to which Mrs. Tonks surprisingly agreed.
Most of the survivors stayed back to help Professor Mcgonagall to restore Hogwarts to its previous glory. It took a week of continuous spells everyday to restore the castle but it was worth it. Professor Mcgonagall was glad that they all stayed and out. One of the evenings, Harry met Professor Mcgonagall in the headmistress room and recounted the trio's adventures as they hunted down the horcruxes. She was shocked but relieved they made it out alive and agreed that without Hermione, they wouldn't have lasted a day. She mentioned to Harry that he could return for his final year in Hogwarts but Harry declined saying he had learnt a lot from their adventures and was looking forward to a quiet year. Plus he had not made up his mind as to what he would like to do in his future and he wished to use the time to think about it.
Kreacher took care of Harry everyday, bringing him breakfast and lunch in his dormitory as he didn't want to go down to the Great Hall and be haunted by the memories of death. When Harry went back to the burrow, Kreacher returned to the Grimmauld Place to clean it. The Weasley siblings and Mr. Weasley decided that would be glad if the whole family was together for a while so that she can feel relieved and get back to her old self slowly. The plan worked and they all got back to the Burrow together.
On reaching the Burrow, as they made sure that the house was fully intact and put up some protective charms, they noticed that Fred's hand from the family clock had fallen down. George picked it up and locked himself up in their room as he couldn't bear to look at any of them without being reminded of Fred. Everyone decided to leave him alone until he felt better. He never came out of his room unless he needed to use the bathroom and he ate his meals in his room. They had decided that if he didn't come out today, they would intervene. None of the Weasley siblings told this plan to their mother in the fear of her shouting at them to leave him alone as he had gone through a lot but the Weasley head knew the plan and agreed to help.
As Harry was immersed in his thoughts, he heard the backdoor open and close. He saw Ginny getting onto her broom and joining him in the sky. She had forced him to speak to her after they came back to the Burrow. She wanted answers to her questions and wouldn't rest until she had them. He told her everything. There were a lot of tears and screams but at the end, they did get back together on his request as he had "no plans of saving the wizarding world anymore" as she would say. She accepted and since then the two of them were inseparable. Though they both knew to give the other their space, he knew that she would be there for him no matter what.
After a few more minutes of flying in silence, asked them both to return and freshen up as breakfast was ready. They both landed together and walked back inside, holding hands. On entering, they saw Hermione was helping and Fleur in setting the table. Ron and Bill were sitting in the family room playing chess and Charlie was talking to someone through the floo, Percy was reading the newspaper at the dining table and Mr. Weasley seemed to have left early for his work as he did over the past month.
The two of them freshened up and returned to the dining table where they ate their breakfast and made their plans for the day. Charlie had to call in at work due to some trouble with paperwork. Fleur and Bill planned to go to the Shell Cottage to get some things which had asked for. Percy planned to go to the Ministry as he had a meeting with Kingsley. This left Harry and Ginny to their flying with Ron joining them this time and Hermione sitting under a tree and reading a book.
made sure they all had at least 2 servings of breakfast before shooing them out so that she could clean up.
The trio and Ginny headed outside. Harry and Ginny played chasers as Ron was the keeper and they were pretty good and kept taunting Ron at his skill. Hermione was laughing watching all this from her spot under the tree. This went on until Charlie and Percy got back home with Angelina who had been invited for lunch, challenged them to a proper game of Quidditch.
The teams were decided. Harry, Ron and Angelina were on one team and the rest on the other. Game started with the release of the quaffle and the snitch. Harry and Charlie were playing seeker and chaser due to the less number of players in the teams. As Harry and Angelina planned their move to get their point and taunting Percy in the process, Charlie came out of nowhere and stole the quaffle.
The Quidditch game went on for another hour or so before a break was announced. Refreshments were in the form of some Butterbeer and cookies and the game began again with Fleur playing as the keeper and Percy as the referee. Bill wanted to join the game as well but was in the process of forcing him to get a haircut.
As the second Quidditch game began, George saw the game through the window. He observed the noise and excitement that only Quidditch could bring and had flashbacks of all the games he and Fred had played as they grew up. The joy of getting selected for the Gryffindor team was celebrated by the two of them eating a huge chocolate cake in the kitchens. He vividly remembered Fred's laugh and his love for chocolate cake and their fight on who got the last piece and at the end, giving it up to a house-elf who had served them. As they returned to the Gryffindor tower, he remembered the two of them were discussing what would happen in the future. He remembered Fred telling him that in case he died first, he would want George to successfully continue their dream of opening a joke shope and to not mope around as George did not look good moping around to which George sarcastically replied, Fred would die because George put one of their inventions down his pants. The two of them were on their way to the Tower laughing and ended up getting caught by Mcgonagall. George blamed Fred for them getting caught because Fred did not see the map and inform that Mcgonagall was around the corner and Fred blamed George because George said the joke and he could not stop laughing. Either way, the two of them had fun arguing about whose fault it was as they did their one week of detentions and also planned another prank.
George smiled remembering this memory and decided that it was time that he faced his family and hoped that they would not make a big deal out of it. He showered and walked downstairs to see Bill being tied down to a chair and gagged as she cut his hair. George laughed and told his mum that it would not work because with each snip of the scissors, Bill's hair grew again magically. Bill glared at him as he did not like his secret leaked out but started laughing when their mum pounced on George for not shaving and looking like a cave man. After making sure George looked better, she made him eat late breakfast as she tried cutting Bill's hair and eventually, gave up.
As the two of them walked towards the field, Bill told George he was glad George was feeling better and that he had missed his little brother to which George replied saying he was glad too.
The two of them walked up to the field and joined the game. George felt much better after the game and was happy arguing with his little sister about if they won the game fairly or not.
As Angelina got ready to leave, George offered to walk her to the apparition point. As they walked, he told her he had always liked her and that at the Yule Ball, it was him who had danced with her. Fred had asked so that he could force George to dance with her as George was shy to ask her himself. Angelina laughed at the confession and was glad they hadn't told her this before or she'd have gotten back at Fred with a prank. As they reached the apparition point, he asked her if she would be interested in going out on a date with him to which she said she would love to. Kissing him on his cheek, she apparated leaving George blushing in the middle of their backyard.
Mrs. Weasley saw the whole thing through the kitchen window and was glad her children were safe and were slowly getting back to normal. As soon as she thought this, she saw Bill run out the backyard door to George, clucking. George saw Bill and ran away laughing and taunting him. The rest of the family were laughing at the dining table. When she asked, they told her George offered Bill a piece of chocolate cake which was actually a very neatly disguised "Canary Cream".